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From: "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams@rcn.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 21/X11 generating unbelieveable network traffic
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 16:31:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <annilp$jq5$1@main.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E17xad1-0003J7-00@fencepost.gnu.org


"Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> wrote in message
news:E17xad1-0003J7-00@fencepost.gnu.org...
>     Have you tried the advice in PROBLEMS?
>     In my experience, configure --without-xim makes a significant
difference!
>
> Is there anyone who can provide code to enable and disable xim at run
> time, so that people can obtain this speedup when they want it without
> having to forfeit the feature completely or recompile Emacs to use it
> again?
>
> Is there a way for Emacs to tell whether the user is using xim
> so as to optimize performance when the user is not?

The former solution would be an improvement, but probably still very slow
unless there's a command-line option because emacs does a lot of this
network handshaking at startup, which makes it unbearable just to wait for a
prompt.

The latter solution sounds like it might work better.

My intuition, FWIW, is that neither of these is really the right long-term
fix. Even if I was using the "X input method" (I assume that's what xim is),
I don't see why emacs should be shuffling fonts, etc., for every .el file
that gets loaded.

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           David Abrahams * Boost Consulting
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-05 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-30 21:11 Emacs 21/X11 generating unbelieveable network traffic David Abrahams
2002-10-01 15:27 ` David Abrahams
2002-10-02  4:07   ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-02 10:53     ` David Abrahams
     [not found]     ` <m3adlwepn9.fsf@fischman.org>
2002-10-03  0:32       ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-02 12:33 ` Joe Buehler
2002-10-03 18:30   ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-03 22:35   ` Kim F. Storm
2002-10-04 22:08     ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-05 20:31       ` David Abrahams [this message]
2002-10-04 15:46   ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-02 17:10 ` Ami Fischman

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